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Woman's Hour: Cara Dillon; Policewomen 100 Years Ago; First Aid Training for Nursery Staff

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Cara Dillon; Policewomen 100 Years Ago; First Aid Training for Nursery Staff

14/11/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Cara Dillon; Policewomen 100 Years Ago; First Aid Training for Nursery Staff

Cara Dillon; Policewomen 100 years ago; First aid training for nursery staff.

Irish folk singer Cara Dillon performs live in the studio, plus Jenni Murray talks about Britain's first policewoman Edith Smith and first aid training for nursery staff.

Traditional Irish folk singer Cara Dillon performs live in studio. Britain's first policewoman Edith Smith has just been honoured with a blue plaque. Historian Dr Louise Jackson and former Detective Chief Superintendent Jane Antrobus talk about the work of the first female police officers and how the job has changed over the last century. Joanne Thompson started the charity Millie's Trust after the death of her two year old daughter at nursery. She has just obtained the necessary 100,000 signatures on a petition to force a debate in Parliament to make it compulsory for all nursery staff to have paediatric first aid training.

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